gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next

[Doug Kirk]

Hi Bob,

To start, you'll want to build and install the kernel from the "drm-next"
branch at https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics .
Instructions in the FreeBSD handbook for building/installing.

Then, the instructions at (
https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/wiki#installing-required-userland-components)
will tell you how to get the updated X server installed.

One thing to note that's not really stated anywhere is that you need to
load the i915kms driver in rc.conf, not from the boot loader, as it's not
ready for boot-time loading yet (last I worked with it, last month).
Boot-time loading results in a panic.

The only other problem I faced was a missing/changed function in a shared
library that `pkg` relies on. Using `pkg-static` to install packages worked
around that.

Cheers!
-doug

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:58 AM Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:12:44AM -0700, Matthew Macy wrote:
> > As of this moment sys/dev/drm in the drm-next tree is sync with
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux drivers/gpu/drm (albeit only for the
> subset of drivers that FreeBSD supports -  i915, radeon, and amdgpu). I
> feel this is a bit of a milestone as it means that it is possible that in
> the future graphics support on FreeBSD could proceed in lockstep with Linux.
> >
> > In addition I have IFCed both drm-next-4.6 and drm-next to HEAD as of
> today.
> >
> > Once I'm done working on Kaby Lake support I intend to get radeon and
> amdgpu to the point where they work as well as i915. Following that we'll
> need to spend some time resolving general correctness issues.
> >
> > -M
> >
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> I just picked up a Skylake i5 NUC (NUC6i5SYH) and was looking for help on
> what
> I need to do to tryout the driver support for Skylake on it.
>
> Currently I have FreeBSD-current (as of a couple of days ago) running on
> it.
> I've read through most of the emails here discussing drm-next support but
> I'm
> not at all clear on where to start? What do I need to do/get?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
>
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